Chrome-Stats extension
Compare Chrome extensions: Online Tools vs LiveHosts
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Online Tools
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LiveHosts
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| User count | 3,000+ | 10,000+ |
| Average rating | 0.00 | 3.47 |
| Rating count | 0 | 36 |
| Last updated | 2021-02-25 | 2022-03-29 |
| Size | 1.29M | 59.17K |
| Version | 1.0.14 | 2.0.0 |
| Short description | |
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| Online Tools App featuring a todo list, notes, weather, and more. | Switch your host/IP mappings in real time without editing your hosts file |
| Full summary | |
Get inspired and make your Google Chrome experience better by replacing your new tab page with Online Tools App featuring a todo list, notes, weather, custom web search and more. Track your todos to eliminate daily distractions and write down your notes to increase your productivity. Online Tools App's extension is all you need to start browsing with quick access to popular widgets and sites. Customize your background and brighten your day. • Keep track of important tasks with the todo list • Write down important notes throughout the day • Check the current time and weather conditions • Browse the web and enjoy quick access to your favorite sites • Customize the dashboard by showing/hiding widgets and changing the background with the settings icon at the bottom-right of your New Tab page. • New tab web search results go to Yahoo! Permissions we request: New Tab: This permission allows the extension to replace the page you see when opening a new tab |
LiveHosts is a Chrome extension that aims at providing a working (even if sub-obtimal) solution to a common nuisance that many web developers have to deal with every day. If you have multiple versions of your websites sharing the same host names on multiple environments, you often need to switch the assignments in your OS hosts file. Other extensions (like the life-saving HostAdmin) can help with the cumbersomeness, but changes to the hosts file usually take an inconvenient amount of time to actually affect the browser. Unfortunately, there is no way to make Chrome direct requests for a hostname to a specific IP without a standard redirect - you could set up a smart HTTP proxy, but it's often not possible or not convenient. This extension settles for a sub-obtimal approach: requests to the indicated hostnames are redirected to the chosen IPs with an additional Host header. The browser's address bar reflects this behaviour showing the hostname right after the IP (e.g. http://127.0.0.1/www.example.com/). The extension also tries to take care of all requests to either the IP or the hostname in a consistent way. Issues After the redirect, the user is effectively in a different domain that the one they expected. They may notice some functional differences:
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